On Monday, 14 of April 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > I don't see the point... On the contrary, prepare() is the pefect place > > > to implement handshaking with userspace for drivers that need to do so, > > > such as the DRM. > > > > This _comment_ reflects the current situation, which is that we freeze tasks > > before a suspend. When it's no longer necessary to do that, I'll be happy to > > change this comment. For now, however, that's not the case. > > Can't we run the freezer after prepare() instead ? Well, I'm not sure and I'm not going to introduce the change right now, after the paches have been included in -mm. That would require quite some changes in the core code that I'd prefer to avoid for now. We can do something like this in a separate patch series after the present one settles down a bit. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html